History chapter 12
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction required
. wealthy planters and Confederate leaders to apply for pardons.
The Radical Republicans rejected the Ten Percent Plan because they believed that
African Americans should be granted full citizenship.
Which event led the House of Representatives to impeach President Johnson?
Johnson's attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Which of the following was a key problem with the sharecropping system?
Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt.
Why was a plan for Reconstruction of the South needed?
The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?
The House impeached the president, but the Senate failed to remove him.
Which idea was a part of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
The Southern states had never really left the Union.
In the years immediately following the Civil War, the South
became a stronghold of the Republican Party.
In the system of share-tenancy, farmworkers
had more control over their crops and supplies than was true in sharecropping.
One success of Reconstruction was the
introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South.
During Reconstruction, most African American families in the South
remained in rural areas, where they worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.
One of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction was to
reunify the nation.
The Fifteenth Amendment affected the women's suffrage movement by
splitting the movement.
The Ten Percent Plan required that
ten percent of a state's voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.
During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
used violence to prevent freed people from voting.